Reviews
JIYU: Totem of Quiet Mystic
If you are in the mood for chill-out music, this is your destination. If it gets on to a Spotify...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024
Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time
Arve Henriksen | Harmen Fraanje
Though most associated with Rune Grammofon, and with a long career spanning Supersilent’s flaming prog improv, orchestral work and Jan...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2024
Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro
Warren’s love affair with Brazilian music, most notably in his association with Hermeto Pascoal, hardly needs re-affirming here. But Choro,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs
Jon Lloyd | John Law p) | Alex Goodyear | Nick Pini
Commenting on this new release, Ubuntu’s Martin Hummel says he was only recently introduced to Lloyd’s music. Me, too. Hummel...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024
Gili Lopes: Algures
John Ellis | Gili Lopes | Helio Alves | Ari Hoenig | Rogerio Boccato | Vinicius Gomes
Algures means ‘somewhere’ in Portuguese, although there’s no sign of the famous Bernstein/Sondheim tune on this album from globe-trotting Brazilian-born...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024
Mike Makhalemele: The Peacemaker
Jabu Nkosi | Sipho Gumede | Neil Cloud | Mike Makhalemele
These three recordings come from the mid-1970s, a bleak time in the evolution of South African jazz. Black cultural life...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024
London Afrobeat Collective: Esengo
London Afrobeat Collective have been distilling the essence of the UK's culturally diverse capital for 15 years now, flying their...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2024
Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life
With a solid grounding in such contemporary ensembles as Tomorrow’s Warriors Female Frontline, Colectiva and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, and...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024
Tony Scott & The Indonesian All Stars: Djanger Bali
Jack Lesmana | Marjono | Bubi Chen | Yopi Chen | Tony Scott | Benny Mustafa
American clarinettist Tony Scott, an underrated trailblazer in jazz history, spent most of the first half of the 1960s in...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2024
Ches Smith: Laugh Ash
From his debut in Tim Berne and Mary Halvorson’s bands some 15 years ago, to his recent work with Marc...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2024
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